23.
Hotel California
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On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
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Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can ﬁnd it here
(…)
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Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
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Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to ﬁnd the passage back
To the place I was before
"Relax, " said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave! "

47.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UnixWay
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The UNIX Way
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✴ Everything is scriptable, whether the author intended it to be or not.
✴ Policy is not decided for you, or reasonable defaults are decided that
you can replace with your own.
✴ Be responsible for what you're doing. You won't be second guessed and
prompted.
✴ Configuration is done via text files that you can edit without
complicated tools. Whenever sensible, data is in text files too.
✴ You can do complicated things by gluing simple things together.
✴ Simple and consistent interfaces are good, but they do not generally
excuse large and complex implementations. Complex systems are built on
simple cores and not vice versa. #LessIsMore #WorseIsBetter
✴ Simple and complex systems are better separated from each other,
leading to layered rather than monolithic design.
✴ Write a script first (ie use sh/awk/perl instead of C)
✴ Anything should be possible to be automated.
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✴ You can break any of these rules.